Stevie Nicks
Rock Singer — born 1948
Stevie Nicks is singer-songwriter rated among the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
Stevie Nicks is an American singer-songwriter whose five-decade music career — primarily as the lead-vocalist-and-songwriter of American-British rock band Fleetwood Mac across 1975–present, plus her parallel solo career — has produced one of the foundational documents of late-1970s and 1980s American rock music. She was born Stephanie Lynn Nicks on May 26, 1948, in Phoenix, Arizona, into a working-class American family. Her father Jess Seth Nicks was an Arizona Greyhound Corporation business-executive, and her mother Barbara Meeks Nicks was a homemaker.
Her 1968 founding of the Buckingham Nicks duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham at the Atherton, California Menlo Park-area folk-and-rock band Fritz produced her early-career late-1960s and early-1970s American rock-music public profile. The 1973 first commercial Buckingham Nicks album Buckingham Nicks launched her early-career American rock-music public profile, although the album's commercial reception was modest at its 1973 release.
Her December 31, 1974 invitation to join Fleetwood Mac — alongside Lindsey Buckingham, replacing Bob Welch — by Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood at the Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, launched her 1975–present 50-year Fleetwood Mac career. The 1975 first Fleetwood Mac album with Nicks and Buckingham (titled Fleetwood Mac) sold over five million American copies and produced her mid-1970s American rock-music public profile.
Her 1977 second Fleetwood Mac album with Nicks and Buckingham, Rumours — released February 4, 1977 by Warner Bros. Records — sold over 40 million copies worldwide and is one of the bestselling albums in international rock-music history. The 1977 album produced her single "Dreams" (which became Fleetwood Mac's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single).
Her parallel solo career has produced multiple American Billboard Hot 100 top-10 singles — particularly her 1981 first solo album Bella Donna (which produced "Edge of Seventeen" and the Tom Petty duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"), her 1983 second solo album The Wild Heart, and her 1985 third solo album Rock a Little. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 (with Fleetwood Mac) and 2019 (as a solo artist) — making her the first woman ever to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.
Her name Stevie began as the unisex English diminutive of Stephanie or Stephen (from the Greek Stephanos meaning "crown"). Stevie has been a popular American unisex name across the late 20th century.
About the name Stevie
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Abbreviation Of Steven And Stephen Often Used As An Independent Name. Stevie Is Also Used For Girls.